‘Urbanistics’ — is the process of addressing the urban dynamics of cities through research and assessment of population densities, and patterns of evolution of both private built form and public infrastructure networks.
Through understanding population growth trends and transactional forces in the built environment, such mapping can be used to target sustainable development policies.
urbanistiX is a modern, dynamic platform that uniquely illustrates the scale and growth of the world’s largest Global Cities through visualisation and mapping of their topography, infrastructure and population patterns in an interactive manner.
This website thereby supports the collection of data from established, planned and emerging Global Cities having different typologies.
Journals
19. Rome + extract (Charles Dickens)
“We entered the Eternal City… by the Porta del Popolo and came immediately on the skirts of the Carnival… We had crossed the Tiber by the Ponte Molle two or three miles before. It had looked as yellow as it ought to look… and had a promising aspect of desolation and ruin… The next day we hurried off to St Peter’s.”
18. Buenos Aires + extract (Felipe Fernández-Armesto & Shlomo Angel)
“Buenos Aires was booming. On the eve of the take-off in the 1870s, when the population was around 200,000, the city seemed to teeter on the edge of civilization. Argentina was an estuary, and the pampa a palatinate. Every view was limitless, along the sea-wide river, across the ocean-wide sea into the apparently endless plain.”
17. São Paulo + extract (Elizabeth Johnson)
Upon arrival, the modern city of São Paulo is perceived as one of the most strikingly dense vertical cities in the world. With skyscrapers built on seemingly every available piece of land, whether flat or sloping, they rise skywards at increasing density.
‘Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development’
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